How are you fixed on injuries and are Terence Kongolo and Jonathan Hogg fit?

Terence and Hoggy look fine and are back in full training.

Unfortunately, on Wednesday, Danny Williams got injured as well.

He has a medial ligament injury which is not isolated, so this means he will be longer sidelined than Aaron.

We expect 10 weeks. This is not something which we wanted, to lose three midfield players and Tommy Smith in a week long-term, but this is part of the game.

Now it is about how we deal with it.

With injuries so far it has been great. We have had 20 to 24 players in training.

We knew, though, that we would need everybody in our squad to manage the situation and that's where we are now.

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Do you have to put a positive spin on things with Aaron Mooy out two months?

I feel for Aaron because he had two great months in front of him and now he is sidelined for eight weeks.

This is a blow, for sure it is, but we have played before without him, when he had a cut on his knee last season, and we will deal with the situation again.

We will try and support him, and all the guys who are out long term, to get back as quickly as they can, but we are also focused on our day by day business.

We have to find solutions tactically, in changing the formation, or with individuals and this is the good thing about this.

Over the last month, everybody has been fit and in full training and everybody knows what he has to do - so now they have the chance to show it after the injuries we conceded.

Will you have to look to strengthen in the midfield area in January?

It is all about Saturday's game at the minute.

We have to see how the rehab of all our guys will progress, but to lose three midfielders in a week with long-term injuries isn't helpful.

What this means for the window is something I will think about when the window is active.

Why do you think performances so far have been better than results?

Yes, because we didn't score enough and we conceded too many!

This is very easy.

And we have been unlucky in a lot of situations as well.

These are the three very easy explanations for why people are saying after our games that we have put in a decent performance but got no reward.

This is what we will now start to try to change.

First of all we have to perform again, collectively and individually, on a level which we have done in the past. This is our first aim.

We then have to make sure we are better in the three areas we have talked about, where we were not good enough or didn't have the luck.

With the injury problems we have at the minute it makes even more sense to have our 12th man at our back.

I am very happy that we play at home in the next two games because the fans can help us.

We need the feeling we have a 12th man and they can really help us to collect the results we need.

They have done it in the past and this is what we will hopefully have again.

Town's Danny Williams seen in action against Arsenal's Stephan Lichtsteiner

Is it more important than ever to get the home form going?

For the home form, it's the same as our form in general - we have had some very good home performances without the reward we have deserved.

The only people who can change this is us, and the first opportunity we have is against Newcastle.

We have to make sure we perform on the highest possible level, we have to make sure we again have the atmosphere in the stands which allows us to play football with intensity and energy and, then, we have to make sure we are more clinical.

We must defend key situations so that we can keep a clean sheet and, on the other side, maybe we have to have a bit more luck than we have had in the past.

Five of the next six games are against relegation rivals, so is this the most important part of the season?

We had a comparable situation five weeks ago for Fulham and West Ham at home, when I got the same question.

The players showed exactly what they had to show in the games, performance wise, and they were successful with points.

I think it makes sense to focus only on the next game.

Newcastle are an opponent who are three points in front of us and we will try everything to get on the same level points wise.

They maybe feel the same, that Huddersfield is an opponent where they can collect points, but at the end we can only influence what we can do.

We have to make sure we fight the right areas and find where we can cause them some problems. We have to make sure we limit their strengths as well.

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After what has happened in the last week with losing four players to long-term injuries, I don't have this now in my head.

Today I have had to call in some players from the Academy to play 10 against 10, and this means that it is anything but in my head that we will at the minute think about how many, or will we lose some players in the window.

How much of a difference can the fans make in this important game?

Now they know our injury history in the last week, I think it is even more vital they are right behind us.

We need them to be loud and to support the team because we need them.

It is more important than ever that we show we are together and that we support each other as strongly as we can.

We want to make sure they are excited about what they see on the grass, but I am sure we will get the support that we need.

It is up to our supporters to make it clear the John Smith's Stadium is our stadium.

Everyone has to see it, everyone has to hear it and I absolutely trust this will be the case.

Have you had to reiterate to the players about total concentration for 90-plus minutes of the game?

We left the Arsenal game very quickly behind us.

We said before the game that we like to test ourselves against the next level, which Arsenal are, without a shadow of a doubt.

We wanted to give them a fight and show what we are capable of, and I think the players did that even though we lost the game very late.

The players limited their clear-cut chances while creating one or two of our own, so I think we played well without getting any points.

That's why we left it behind quickly and started looking forward to the next challenge, which is Newcastle.

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Australia seem to think there could be a possibility of Aaron Mooy being involved in the Asia Cup?

Listen, I totally understand, and we will support them if they'd like to have a second opinion as I think this is absolutely their right, you know he is an important player for them.

We would love to have him back earlier but everything what my medical department said from the images and the specialist is obviously that he will be out for eight weeks.

Unfortunately this means for them that he will miss more or less the whole Asia Cup, depending on how far they come in the tournament.

But, as I said, if they like to bring some medical staff from them over to have a look at Aaron, we already gave our images which we have done last week, the reports from the specialist as well - we have no secrets about it.

This is anything but nice for all of us, for us and of course for Aaron. But, I understand it, and we will support them if they want to have another opinion.

How do you think Aaron Mooy will cope with the situation of being out?

He is anything but happy, but if you know Aaron he doesn't show the most emotion.

He gets on with it. He knows that he can't change it and, in these first week, he knows only that he has to protect his knee with the air cast he has on.

Then it will be all about working hard in the rehab and we have one of the best medical departments in the country - I trust they will do everything to bring him back as quickly as possible.

We have experiences with these injuries in the past, so we are pretty sure of the time frame.